How expensive is gasoline in other countries?

Sep. 7, 2005

A: In the last week of August, when the Energy Information Administration recorded a $2.80 per gallon average in the United States, Britain averaged $6.21, France $5.74, Germany $5.99 and the Netherlands $6.63.The U.S. average was 36 percent higher than a year earlier. In the other countries, the increase was between 11 percent and 16 percent.